26 November 2012

Pro-Israel demo in Dublin meets opposition

A pro-Gaza demonstrator holding a Palestinian flag who walked towards the Israeli rally was wrestled to the ground by eight officers

GARDAÍ arrested two Palestine supporters on Dublin’s O’Connell
Street on Sunday during a pro-Israel rally supported by the Israeli Embassy.

The
number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces during the latest offensive has
risen to 160, including 105 civilians, 34 of whom are children.

Fewer than 40 pro-Israeli demonstrators gathered in
Dublin on Sunday to show their support for the Zionist state’s attacks. They
carried banners reading “I Love Israel” and waved Israeli flags.

Dozens of Garda officers – including three vans full
of riot police – confronted a small, ad-hoc counter-protest by Palestinian
solidarity activists.

The counter-protesters denounced Israeli war crimes in
the recent attacks on Gaza and called for an end to the siege and economic
blockade of the coastal territory.

A pro-Gaza demonstrator holding a Palestinian flag who
walked towards the Israeli rally was wrestled to the ground by eight
officers and (pictured right) arrested. Another man who remonstrated with gardaí over the arrest was himself
taken into custody.

Gardaí also removed a baby from a pram in order to
carry out a search of a suspected pro-Palestinian demonstrator and her son,
resulting in heated exchanges between the crowd and the officers.